{"id":2681,"date":"2005-07-26T20:57:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-26T20:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2005\/07\/newsbites-king-aristocrats-deadly\/"},"modified":"2005-07-26T20:57:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-26T20:57:00","slug":"newsbites-king-aristocrats-deadly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2005\/07\/newsbites-king-aristocrats-deadly.html","title":{"rendered":"Newsbites: King! Aristocrats! Deadly!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><span style=\"font-family: georgia\">Just a few quick new links re: upcoming releases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">1.<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.yahoo.com\/mv\/news\/fs\/20050724\/112226040000.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">FilmStew.com<\/a> reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkfilmcompany.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">ThinkFilm<\/a> will distribute <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/06\/newsbites-sith-baer-king-convert.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The King<\/a><\/i> \u2014 which stars Willam Hurt as a married pastor and Gael Garcia Bernal as his illegitimate son \u2014 in early 2006.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"2\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">2.<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.yahoo.com\/mv\/news\/va\/20050726\/112239144200.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Reuters<\/a> reports that the producers of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/newsbites-quickie-aslan-aristocrats.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Aristocrats<\/a><\/i> didn\u2019t even bother to get the film rated by the MPAA, because they figured it would get an NC-17.  Having seen the film, which has no nudity and no violence but a very, very high degree of verbal obscenity, I wouldn\u2019t have been surprised if it had.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"3\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">3.<\/a> <i><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;u=\/nm\/20050726\/en_nm\/film_montreal_dc_1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/i>, the <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/national\/nationalpost\/news\/story.html?id=49d4b17b-30d0-4f7c-8034-8a189b51841b\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">National Post<\/a><\/i>, the <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/TPStory\/LAC\/20050726\/KARLA26\/TPEntertainment\/Film\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Globe and Mail<\/a><\/i> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;u=\/cpress\/20050725\/ca_pr_on_en\/film_homolka_bernardo_2\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Canadian<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;u=\/cpress\/20050726\/ca_pr_on_en\/film_homolka_bernardo_2\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Press<\/a> report that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ffm-montreal.org\/cgi-bin\/webcomm-2.2?site=ffm&amp;lng=en&amp;idx=1&amp;ref=374\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">World Film Festival<\/a> in Montreal will host the world premiere of <i>Karla<\/i>, formerly known as <i>Deadly<\/i>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/capitalizing-on-crimes_111213853548007841.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">controversial<\/a> film about real-life criminals Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka.  The film\u2019s release was originally scheduled for last June, shortly before Homolka\u2019s release from prison, but was <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/05\/newsbites-epic-dvds-homolka-etc.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">delayed<\/a> after protests in Ontario.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few quick new links re: upcoming releases. 1. FilmStew.com reports that ThinkFilm will distribute The King \u2014 which stars Willam Hurt as a married pastor and Gael Garcia Bernal as his illegitimate son \u2014 in early 2006. 2. 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